assalamu alaykum, hope you are all well!
I just wanted to share something i went trough the other day!
I was in the south of France for exams and the exams being over it was time to go back up north to my family.
I had to take the bus to go to the train station: in the bus there were 2 maroccan women sitting infront of me and they kept on turning to look at me. After about 10 min on the bus one finaly turned and sait here is a present and gave me a set of old prayer beads she got out of her bag. She then carryed on to say :"you are a very brave girl to were niqab here, you are a better muslim than we are because we do not cover our heads".
I said to her Allah alone knows what is in our hearts, and then their stop came and they had to get off.
On the train it was the usual stares and people saying "oh my god" and talking about me thinking i can not hear!
When i got to paris i had to take the metro rail from one station to the next .
I had a very heavy bad and was having a bad time with the stairs ! 5and my big flowing abaya hehe ) people just push and say get out of the way!!!
I got to one flight of stairs and was prefaring myself to try to get down without falling, a young white french boy said give me your bag with a big smile and took it down the stairs . Teir you go , he said with a warming smile and then carryed on where he was going ( i felt so happy that some people can be nice)
Not even 5 min after an middle aged man in a suit walked past and shouted to me : "WE ARE IN FRANCE HERE YOU KNOW" (i het that one trown at me at least 5 times a day when i have to go out)
After that I had to wait for my train and same old stares and comments over and over again!
Igot on my train and settled down waiting to go.
Then an anoucement on the high speaker: will the owner of a blue bag by the name of ******, repport amediatly to bla bla bla .....
IT WAS ME!!!! "we got a call saying this bag was suspisious" they said !
just a normal travel bag !
so they opened my bag and went trough all of my things!!
of course was not the bag that was suspisious!was me!!!
after that everybody was looking and whispering about theterroriste on the train !
I got home totaly wacked and confused about the whole day!
I just wanted to share something i went trough the other day!
I was in the south of France for exams and the exams being over it was time to go back up north to my family.
I had to take the bus to go to the train station: in the bus there were 2 maroccan women sitting infront of me and they kept on turning to look at me. After about 10 min on the bus one finaly turned and sait here is a present and gave me a set of old prayer beads she got out of her bag. She then carryed on to say :"you are a very brave girl to were niqab here, you are a better muslim than we are because we do not cover our heads".
I said to her Allah alone knows what is in our hearts, and then their stop came and they had to get off.
On the train it was the usual stares and people saying "oh my god" and talking about me thinking i can not hear!
When i got to paris i had to take the metro rail from one station to the next .
I had a very heavy bad and was having a bad time with the stairs ! 5and my big flowing abaya hehe ) people just push and say get out of the way!!!
I got to one flight of stairs and was prefaring myself to try to get down without falling, a young white french boy said give me your bag with a big smile and took it down the stairs . Teir you go , he said with a warming smile and then carryed on where he was going ( i felt so happy that some people can be nice)
Not even 5 min after an middle aged man in a suit walked past and shouted to me : "WE ARE IN FRANCE HERE YOU KNOW" (i het that one trown at me at least 5 times a day when i have to go out)
After that I had to wait for my train and same old stares and comments over and over again!
Igot on my train and settled down waiting to go.
Then an anoucement on the high speaker: will the owner of a blue bag by the name of ******, repport amediatly to bla bla bla .....
IT WAS ME!!!! "we got a call saying this bag was suspisious" they said !
just a normal travel bag !
so they opened my bag and went trough all of my things!!
of course was not the bag that was suspisious!was me!!!
after that everybody was looking and whispering about theterroriste on the train !
I got home totaly wacked and confused about the whole day!